Devotion (Why I Write)

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Following the death of her husband in 1994, Smith began devoting time to what she terms "pure photography", a method of capturing still objects without using a flash. [57] In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the U.S., Camera Solo. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as "a room of one's own", and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography. [57] The exhibition featured artifacts that were everyday items or places of significance to artists Smith admires, including Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, and William Blake. In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival. [58]

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In 2018, Smith's concert-documentary film Horses: Patti Smith and her Band, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. [75] In addition, Smith narrated Darren Aronofsky's VR experience Spheres: Songs of Spacetime along with Millie Bobby Brown and Jessica Chastain. [76] Flood, Alison (February 5, 2020). "Patti Smith pitches in to help burgled Oregon bookshop". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved February 5, 2020.

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Ralph Nader And Patti Smith at the American Museum of Tort Law Convocation". Between the Lines. September 26, 2015 . Retrieved October 19, 2015.

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The short volume promises a glimpse into Patti Smith’s intuitive creative process — but disappoints. a b "National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 26, 2012. (With acceptance speech, interview, and reading.) Kreps, Daniel (December 10, 2016). "See Patti Smith Cover Dylan's 'Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' at Nobel Ceremony". Rolling Stone. Vulliamy, Ed (June 3, 2005). "Some give a song. Some give a life..." The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved February 8, 2008.In March 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas and performed an anti-war concert. She subsequently wrote "Peaceable Kingdom", a song which was inspired by and is dedicated to Corrie. [109] In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying "Where is My Vote?" in a version of the song "People Have the Power". [110] Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. "-Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic I think the climate movement is the most important thing on the planet right now. It permeates everything. Civil rights, human rights, women’s rights,” Smith says. Patti Smith to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize". The Source | Washington University in St. Louis. January 27, 2020 . Retrieved January 31, 2020.

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Mom!” Jesse interrupts. “Stop saying that. I hate it when she says that. It’s like when she says she’s not a musician. Of course you are.” A triptych of compact, heartfelt essays on discovery, solitude and writing.”—Darragh McManus, Irish IndependentIn 1967, Smith left Glassboro State College and moved to Manhattan in New York City, where she met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe while working at a bookstore with friend and poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with poverty and Mapplethorpe's sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most influential and important people in her life, and referred to him as "the artist of my life" in her book Just Kids. A long-time supporter of Tibet House US, Smith performs annually at their benefit at Carnegie Hall. [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] Petrusich, Amanda (January 17, 2019). "Patti Smith's Talismanic Photos from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's Home and Beyond". The New Yorker . Retrieved August 29, 2022. Bowie, Moby, Matthews Spark Tibet House Benefit". Billboard. February 27, 2001 . Retrieved September 24, 2019. The climate emergency is at the forefront of Smith’s mind. We’re meeting via Zoom to discuss her headline concert at the opening of Cop26, and I’m momentarily thrown by the sight of the queen of punk waving at me from her bedroom in New York. But there she is, her thin frame draped in a green shirt, her long silver hair in plaited pigtails on each side of her angular, undone face. A guitar rests in the corner of the room, while her cat makes regular appearances on screen. An artist, almost more than anyone, has got to be free

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Murray, Noel (May 28, 2015). "60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 28, 2015. The lesson is obvious: that a writer draws on every detail of his or her life for the alchemical, often unconscious process of creation. But seeing the process in action is a profound experience. Smith’s writing in the essays is as beautifully structured as her poetry.”— Publishers Weekly Performing on Saturday Night Live in 1976. Photograph: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images Macmillan: Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo Murat Kurnaz: Books". Us.macmillan.com. December 4, 2009. Archived from the original on August 6, 2011 . Retrieved July 15, 2011.In the short fiction of Devotion, she sometimes inserts a cliché. Smith knows when she’s inserting clichés and favors them because of her profound love of detective stories. In detective stories, you can always find clichés because the truth is that often times it’s enough to say “the man sat down in the chair”. We don’t always need to know what kind of man nor do we need to know what kind of chair, or how he sat. At other times, the telling detail is a more psychological one that paints no proper image at all: “He was a solitary man, in his late thirties, of unusual control, hardy and virile, yet uniquely sensitive, having already negotiated the spectrum of academics, risk, art, and excess” (45). This is likewise an apt description of Smith, though she is twice as old as her character.